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Pointed Heels
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Pointed Heels is an American film from Paramount Pictures that was released in 1929. It stars Helen Kane the "Poo-Poo-Pah-Doop" girl as Dorothea 'Dot' Nixon.
A sequence from the film would be partially used as inspiration by Fleischer Studios animator Grim Natwick, in which featured an early prototype of Betty Boop in the animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes which was released in 1930.
Dizzy Dishes was only supposed to have been a one-shot cartoon.
But when it was released it was given such great reviews, that Paramount urged the Fleischer Studios to continue developing the character, and Betty Boop was born.
Trivia
- During the film Helen Kane sings two of her most popular "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" songs of the 1920s, which are "Ain'tcha" and "I Have To Have You" on stage.
- Coincidentally during Helen Kane's final performance of "I Have To Have You" she wears a great big bow on the back of her dress. Betty also sports a great big bow on the back of her dress in her debut and also sings "I Have To Have You" on stage with Bimbo.
- The film was brought up in the $250,000 Infringement Lawsuit.
- Betty Boop sings "Ain'tcha" in the 1932 Fleischer Studios cartoon The Betty Boop Limited.
- Margie Hines and Mae Questel who both had entered the Helen Kane Impersonation Contest, became the voices of Betty Boop.
- In one number for "I Have To Have You" Helen Kane mocks a "stereotypical blonde" by wearing a blonde wig in her classical rendition of the song. The dancing girls and men in the audience are disgusted by the number.